21st Sunday after Pentecost The great theme of this Sunday is that our life in this world is essentially a time of spiritual warfare, where the enemies are not our fellow humans, but the demons who are fighting against our souls, striving to take…

20th Sunday after Pentecost   Today’s Mass opens with a passage from the prayer pronounced by Azariah in the burning furnace. The episode is set during the Babylonian captivity, when the Chosen People had been exiled into a foreign land and deprived of the…

19th Sunday after Pentecost External Solemnity of the Holy Rosary With the month of October, we find ourselves once again in what is at once the month of the Holy Rosary and the month of the Holy Angels. This is certainly no coincidence. Our…

1-3 October 2026 October is the month of the Holy Angels, and it follows fast upon the feast of St Michael with whom the other archangels are associated in the liturgy. In the monastic breviary at Lauds on 29 September we sing a beautiful…

18th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s Gospel, we admire Our Blessed Lord healing a paralytic. It is one of the countless miracles He performs with a word. What is peculiar, however, to this healing is that He does not simply take the man by…

17th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s Gospel, we find Our Blessed Lord giving the Pharisees what we might call the first lesson in Christian apologetics, that is to say, the defence of the faith that St Peter already said all Christians must be able…

16th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s epistle, we come across some words of St Paul that at first sight seem enigmatic. The chapter begins with the apostle telling the Ephesians that he is in prison for preaching the word of God. Then he goes…

3-5 September 2026 September 3 is the traditional feast of Pope St Pius X, whose biographer tells us that when he travelled to Rome for the conclave that followed the death of Leo XIII, it did not even occur to him that he might…

August 2026 (6-8 August) This month’s triduum providentially commences with the glorious feast of the Transfiguration and concludes with the feast of St Mary of the Cross. What connection, you might be asking? The mystery of the Transfiguration, while manifesting Our Lord’s glory, also…